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face of Nature and Man and if you live blindly, mechanically going round like an ox of the tread-mill well you have not enjoyed the Day as you should have enjoyed it, and have frittered away all your energy and the Night comes and all is over He has had some soul-stirring experience before, and Death Reflections as a Call has taken a special significance On Death since then He makes pertinent references to Death as a crisis in Life
He wants people to keep it ever before their minds, not as a dreadful event in life, but as testing time You should possess your self of a clearance certificate before you enter the Portals of Death Death serves as a stimulant to those who meditate upon it, to urge them on in the race of righteousness It keeps them awake and vigilant
persuasive
He is so free and fearless in all his speeches He cares not for petty conventions His thinking does not move in the old grooves He puts the 'Old', but in the Firm, but language of to-day There is nothing of a Pandit or a Shastri about him He criticises the New too He does not assert as if he is the only custodian of Truth but gently he pushes in his ideas, presented in some pretty story, or parable His discourse 19 Colourful a happy combination of Speech Akhyan and Vyakhyan, Sermon and Lecture, free from the clerical stiffness of the one and the high-browed airs of the other. He usually lends a romantic setting to his spoken word-a general
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